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The Romanian regulator has issued a consultation concerning spectrum fees for television and radio broadcasters. The two-week long consultation began on Tuesday this week (January 28). Read more...
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The German regulator has issued a consultation on "Projekt 2016". The consultation focusses on the draft terms for a planned auction of the 700 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, and 1.5 GHz bands in the second quarter of 2015. In a statement, BNetzA's President, Jochen Homann, said that the auction would address… Read more...
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Industry Canada has issued a consultation concerning its intention to auction residual blocks of the 700 MHz and AWS-3 bands this August. The licences available cover Yukon, the Northwest Territoris, Nunavut, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. These licences were unsold during Industry Canada's auctions of the 700 MHz and AWS-3 bands in… Read more...
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The rapporteur for the much discussed 'Connected Continent' legislative package has invited stakeholders to email her with their views on the regulation. Her office has told PolicyTracker that there are no specific questions to be addressed and that "general views concerning the Telecom regulation" should be send to the ITRE… Read more...
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The Portuguese regulator has issued a consultation regarding its draft decision concerning the methodology for reference speeds regarding coverage obligations in the 800 MHz band. The document has been circulated among the country's three MNOs and is now a subject to a 20 day consultation that will conclude on January… Read more...
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The South African regulator has issued a discussion paper about Dynamic Spectrum Access to a public consultation. The discussion paper advocates several measures that would build a regulatory framework to enable DSA, particularly in TV White Spaces between 470 MHz and 694 MHz on a secondary basis. Read more...
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The Australian regulator has published a discussion paper for submissions to proposed regulatory changes to address the supply of wireless audio transmitters, including wireless microphones that operate in the digital dividend frequencies (694–820 MHz). As the digital dividend frequencies have been re-allocated for mobile broadband services, wireless audio transmitters will… Read more...
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Italy's telecoms regulator has released a consultation document for what it describes as its "big auction" of 300 MHz of spectrum. This includes both the digital dividend 800 MHz band and the 2.6 GHz band, which several other countries have grouped together for a 4G auction, as well as new… Read more...
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Britain's communications ministry and seven other major government departments have issued a document proposing ways of identifying and releasing at least 500 MHz of sub-5 GHz public sector spectrum over the next 10 years. The document reveals five bands which have been identified as suitable for further investigation, and sets… Read more...
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The Irish government has issued a comprehensive consultation on its spectrum policy priorities. The consultation will revisit the Spectrum Policy Statement, which was published in September 2010, and shall take in to account the National Broadband Plan, which was published in 2012. The document invites all stakeholders, including consumers, to answer 17 questions… Read more...